Druggist&#39;s cabinet.



M. P. SCHWARTZ.

/ DRUGGISTS CABINET. APPLIOATfON FILED MAY 22, 1909.

946,467. Patented Jan. 11,1910.

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MAURICE P. SQHWARTZ, 96E INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA, ASSIGNOR 0F ONE-HALF TOHERMAN A. BEL-MING, OF INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA.

DRUGGIST? S CABINET.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Jan. 11, 1910.

Application filed May 22, 1909. Serial No. 497,736.

To all whom it may concern.

Be it known that I, IVIAURICE P. SCHWARTZ, a citizen of the UnitedStates, residing at Indianapolis, in the county of Marion and State ofIndiana, have invented certain new and useful Improvements 1n Drugglstslothers, so as to be found only after a con-,

siderable search, unless the salesman has a complete memory of thelocation of all the articles.

The object of, my said invention is to produce a cabinet which willconveniently contain a much larger number of articles than ordinarshelving, and so arranged that the entire number may be easily broughtinto view, thus notonly very greatly'economizing space, but renderingthe articles much more conveniently accessible and easily found. Thearrangement includes a system of labeling and indexing, which enablesthe recently-employed salesman, having no memory knowledge of the stock,to fin any article desired with facility.

Referring to'the accompanying drawings, which are made a part hereof,and on which similar reference characters indicate similar parts, Figurel is a perspective view of a fragment of a cabinet embodying my presentinvention; Fig. 2 a. detail sectional view -as seen when looking in thedirection indicated by the arrows from the broken line 2 2 in Fig. 3;Fig. 3 a detail horizontal sec tional view as seen-when lookingdownwardly from the broken line 3 3 in Fig.

. 2; Fig. 4 a detail perspective view showing the form,arrangement andmethod of attaching the position of containers, and Fig 5 a detailsectionalview I at the point indicated by the broken line 5 5 in Fig. 3.

As shown in the drawings this cabinet "consists'of a series of suitablysupported shelves 21 having grooves 22 and 23 in their upper and lowersurfaces extending trans" versely thereof from the rear to near thefront sides, and a series "of cabinet boxes or goods containers 31placed between said shelves and having guiding pins 32 and 33 extendinginto said grooves in the shelves. As shown in Fig. 1 the several cabinetboxes tire space between the shelves longitudinally thereof, except thatthe bodies are spaced slightly apart back of the fronts to accommodateguides which I prefer to use. IVhen access is desired to the contents ofany one of these boxes, itis first drawn out until its rear end is infront of the normal position of its front end (one of the boxes in theupper row is indicated in this position in Fig. 1), and then swungaround sidewise'to the position in which one of the boxes in the lowerrow is shown, bringing the'open side thereof to the front, andcompletely exposing its contents. The shelves 21' are sufliciently widerthan the length of the cabinet box 31, so as to form a ledge in front ofthe row of boxes, upon which the individual box when drawn out may restas shown. The grooves 22 and 23, in whichthe pins 32 and 33 rest andoperate, stop a little short of the front edge of the shelf 21, so thatthe b xes cannot be completely withdrawn from their proper positions.

As shown in Figs. 3 and 5, I have placed between the bodies of thecabinet boxes, or

containers, ust back of the front ends thereof, guide pins 29, and theseI preferably surround with small anti-friction rollers 39. These guidepins' prevent the front ends of said boxes orcont-ainers from movingside-' wise into the space left vacantwhen one of ,said boxes iswithdrawn, in use, and this greatly facilitates the certain and readyinsertion of such box or container to its at-rest position. I

Each of the cabinet boxes should be prol vided with a handle 34, bymeans of which gluiding pins which control the t e individual cabinetboxes orit may be easily moved in and out, and is whi may be inscribedthe names of the 65 31, when in normal position, occupy the en- 19,.Having thus fully described my said invention, what'l claim as new, anddesireeto secure by Letters Patent, is

1. The combination, in a cabinet, or" series of shelves having groovesin their upper and lower surfaces extending transversely thereof to neartheir front edges, and con- Jtainers shorter than the width of theshelves mounted thereon and having pins which engage with the grooves,Said pins being arranged to stop the movement of the con,- tainers whenpulled outwardly and prevent complete disengagement thereof with theshelves, and said containers being also ada ted to swing on said pins asa pivot a ter eing pulled out to the predetermined distance eeasev andthus brought around so that the contents thereof will be exposed andconveniently accessible.

2: The combination, in a cabinet, of a series of shelves havingtransverse grooves in their upper and lower faces, containers placedbetween said shelv'es'and having pins extending upwardly and downwardlythere from and engaging with the grooves in the shelves, said containersbeing thereby held to (position and permitted to be pulled out an swungaround to enable access to their contents, and guides arranged betweenthe sides .of the containers whereby they are kept from sidewisedisplacement when in closed position.

In witness whereof I, have hereunto set my hand and seal atIndianapolis, Indiana, this nineteenth day of May, A. 1). one thousandnine hundred and nine.

MAURICE r. SCHWARTZ. [1,. 8.]

Witnesses 'Cnnsrns Emorono,

' THOMAS WT. MCMEANS.

